Large birthday card featuring glittery balloons, embossed vellum and greeting

Our youngest granddaughter has a birthday this week.  She will be two!!!  I made this card for her and we will be sending it digitally.  

I started with a lilac card and then trimmed a piece of decorative rainbow paper to fit.  I embossed three strips of vellum with polka dots, folded the tops over the edge of the background and secured them on the back with regular tape.  I put a little piece on the bottoms as well to keep them from moving.  I glued the background to my card front.  The balloons I had made earlier.  They are digital (CLKER) and were printed on white and fussy cut.  I watercoloured them then added glitter glue to them and left them to dry.  They are beautifully sparkly!!!  I tied black heavyweight thread to them and then used 3D foam tape to position them on my card front.  Love how they look!!!  I embossed a strip of white cardstock repeatedly with the Happy Birthday embosing folder (CB) and then trimmed a piece the size I needed.  I layered it with pink cardstock strips - top and bottom.  I added this embossed strip to the bottom of my card.  I used glitter glue to embellish the little cake in the greeting and gel pens to colour the candles!!  Perfect!!!  Finally, I added a bit of white glue to the places the balloon cords fell naturally and placed them in the little puddle and left them to dry.  I am so happy with how it turned out!!  Therese